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A pulse or a wave train travels along a stretched string and reaches the fixed end of the string. It will be reflected back with

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A pulse of wave train when travels along a stretched string and reaches the fixed end of the string, then it will be reflected to the same medium and the reflected ray suffers a phase change of $π$ with the incident wave but wave velocity after reflection reverses its direction.

Final answer: (d)

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